Fight to End Slavery
The term for someone who fought to end slavery
This was the main issue causing division between free and slave states.
What is slavery?
This current state broke away from Mexico to become an independent republic before being annexed by the United States.
What is Texas?
This violent conflict occurred in Kansas over slavery.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This concept allowed people in a territory to vote on slavery.
What was popular sovereignty?
This woman helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This state was admitted as a free state under the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
This river was claimed as the southern border of Texas by the United States.
What is the Rio Grande river?
This law required the return of escaped enslaved people.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
The Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in this location.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This escaped slave became a famous writer and speaker.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
The Missouri Compromise tried to maintain balance in representation in this part of Congress.
What was the senate?
This president led the U.S. during the war.
Who is James K. Polk?
This state entered the union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850.
This enslaved preacher who felt he was directed by God to lead a violent rebellion of enslaved people, killing 55-60 white people.
Who was Nat Turner?
This white man led a raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave uprising.
Who is John Brown?
This latitude line divided free and slave territories in the Louisiana Purchase.
What was 36°30′?
This term refers to the large amount of land the U.S. gained from Mexico after the war.
What is Mexican Cession?
This new political party formed in opposition to the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This newspaper, started by William Lloyd Garrison, called for immediate emancipation.
What was The Liberator?
This law later overturned the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This term describes proslavery settlers who crossed into Kansas to influence voting.
What are border ruffians?
What is South Carolina?